I have so many things to say that I am tempted to say them all in one blog, but it would mean that this one would be a two pager, so I will try to do it in several. I am also going to try to be better and schedule the blog writing time.
So let me address the schedule change and how it has been working. When I last talked about it, I said that I was working during the day, taking care of the children in the evening and taking the children with me to work so that my husband could pick them up in the parking lot of my school after his 3rd shift job ended. Well, that is still the schedule, sort of.
MM is a very inquisitive child. She enjoys challenging herself and exploring new places as well as her abilities. You know the cartoon in which the small child stacks loads of books, furniture, and toys into an teetering tower so that she can reach the cookie jar? Well, that is MM. As much as my husband wanted to stay awake, after working all night at a physically demanding job, he was finding himself falling asleep about mid-morning. He even tried not sitting down, but eventually he needed to, and well, MM was waiting.
So, before we came up with a solution, MM did the following:
- climbed up on a chair, then the counter-top and got into an upper cabinet in the kitchen to get the plastic salt mill so that she could put it in the toaster. My husband woke up to the smell of smoke. Needed to replace toaster and salt mill; thankfully not house, child or husband.
- dumped an entire container of liquid soap in the sink and "finger painted" the floor, the walls and her hair. (took a 10 minute shower to get all the soap out of her hair and off body).
- walked out of house (!) to play in the rain. She did have her boots on.
- went poo-poo in potty but does not have wiping skills quite mastered so rubbed butt on white carpet in her bedroom until she felt clean.
- used window markers to decorate the wood-work, the walls, the fabric on dining room chairs, the tile in foyer, the carpet in living room, her shoes and finally her brother's toes (this woke Andy up).
- dumped an entire container of liquid soap in the other bathroom after climbing onto stool. She "finger painted" the mirror, the walls, the floor and the carpet in playroom. (another 10 minute shower)
- used crayons to color in whole deck of playing cards.
- revenge peed in her bedroom
- dumped all of her toys out of their containers in the play room, thus creating a crawling hazard for BJ
- jumped from coffee table to couch, to sitting chairs, to coffee table, to couch...
You certainly have your hands full!
ReplyDeleteSit down to write once. Then schedule your posts to appear at regular intervals. That's the easy way to blog...because some days you just don't have enough to say!